I have so much to say about Exodus of course I do but I can't really muster the

courage I want to describe an incredible detail my analysis of the Israeli project, the diaspora of Palestine,

the history of Jews in Persia, the girls of the IDF, the lost tribes of Israel, the Sephardic flight from Spain, Goldemayer, the Balfour Declaration?

I want to describe King Abdullah of Jordan and the films of Anne Bancroft. I want to talk about drip irrigation and the Uzi

sub-machine gun, but I'm certain that if I do I'll attract some portion of the ire, of the

entire body of our listeners,

and I'm just not feeling up to the task of reading

your 100 emails explaining to me why I'm a fascist.

And by the way, that's not how the Chain of Command works.

Like anyone interested in military and cultural history, the 72-year-old history of the nation

of Israel is irresistible to me, and I've studied it voraciously, and I wish I lived in a world different from this one where I could fix all the problems by unwinding time at my leisure and coaxing, midwifing, the whole experience so that everyone involved.

Then and now got exactly what they wanted, plus a little extra at the expense of the other guy and now lives happily somewhere better

than where they lived before that's my fantasy but honestly I'm just as ready to

dive in and try to help aid in a bet a solution to a current

situation that honestly cannot be fixed at any price.

Did you know that King Abdullah granted all Palestinians Jordanian citizenship and offered

to administer the Jewish state as a province within his own kingdom?

But there I go. I don't want to get into it.

Do you, the listener, have a position on Israel?

Probably. You probably can get pretty riled up about it, can't you?

But do I want to hear it?

No, of course I don't.

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